Kian v. Florida Moot Court
Description
Kian v. Florida asks whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a defendant charged with a serious felony the right to be tried by a twelve-person jury, rather than a six-person jury. The case requires the Court to consider the continuing validity of Williams v. Florida (1970), which held that the federal Constitution does not require twelve–member juries instate criminal trials.
Materials for Panel
Academic Perspectives
- Wanling Su and Rahul Goravara in North Carolina Law Review: What is a Jury? (2025)
- Barbara Luppi and Francesco Parisi in The Journal of Legal Studies: Jury Size and the Hung-Jury Paradox (2013)
- Steven S. Gensler, Patrick Higginbotham and Lee Rosenthal in Judicature: Better by the Dozen: Bringing Back the Twelve-Person Civil Jury (2020)
- Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson in The Quarterly Journal of Economics: The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials (2012)
- Alice Guerra, Barbara Luppi, and Francesco Parisi in Supreme Court Economic Review: Accuracy of Verdicts under Different Jury Sizes and Voting Rules (2020)
- Kaushik Mukhopadhaya in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization: Jury Size and the Free Rider Problem (2003)
News Articles
- Anastasia Boden for SCOTUSblog: 12 angry men – or six?
- Damon Root for Reason: The Founders Revered the Right to Trial by Jury. Will SCOTUS Now Follow Their Example?
- Dan Sullivan for the Tampa Bay Times: Supreme Court could end 6-person juries. For Florida, it would be a seismic shift
- Matt Ford for the New Republic: The Supreme Court Might Fix Something for Once
- Wanling Su for Time Magazine: Does a Jury Require 12 People? The Supreme Court Has Chance to Correct the Record
Case Documents
- SCOTUSblog Link
- Petitioner: Brief
- Respondent: Brief in Opposition
Amicus Brief
- Akhil Reed Amar: Brief supporting Petitioner
Case Law
- Justice Gorsuch: dissent from denial of certiorari in Khorrami v. Arizona (2022).
- Justice Gorsuch: dissent from denial of certiorari in Cunningham v. Florida (2024).
- Challenged Precedent: Williams v. Florida (1970)